Typo: No, SimpleLog: YES

Hello, World. There - I said it. This is the first post on my shiny new blog. It's actually my second run at a blog, but you wouldn't know that because I couldn't get the first run to deploy. I will admit that I am not a Rails jedi (yet), but I did spend a LOT of time crawling through Google to get the thing running. I even found a nice blog that was written about a week and a half ago for the EXACT steps I needed to do to get it to work on the host that I am using (Dreamhost).

No dice. I suck at Rails.

Then I found some nice blogs that compared Typo to WordPress or Mephisto. I even saw where some people recently switched from Typo to Mephisto (which isn't being all that actively developed on). The results were a mixed bag. Typo seems to have a pretty heavy memory situation going for it, and on a shared host that poses a problem. It also had a pretty serious not running in the first place problem for me.

Enter SimpleLog. I started seeing some comments about why didn't you try SimpleLog. It is, after all, pretty simple.

I checked it out, and here we are after only about 2.5 hours of work. That includes the time I spent checking it out on my localhost. It also includes the time I spent helping my wife with a project that she is working on for my son's school. My svn version is only 7, with the first version being the initial checkin before anything else was done.

Maybe I don't suck so bad afterall. Tomorrow will be another day, though.